Portfolio Category: Mixed-media

I worked with Najma and World Village to design and illustrate this sleeve. There was limited images of the two artists (none taken together) and there was no money for a shoot, so I produced the cover and developed the sleeve from there. “Thank you so so much for your wonderful artistic, colourful, and sophisticated … Continue reading Najma Akhtar / Gary Lucas – Rishte

Tim Mustoe at Wardour commissioned me for a series of over 20 pencil and mixed media illustrations for the 2012 Global Ports annual report. Some were run as straight illustrations, some dropped into Photoshop and expanded into larger illustrations for the report. Continue reading Wardour – Global Ports Annual Report

Songlines covers music from every corner of the planet and I was their freelance art director from 2005 to 2012. As a small independent title, we had tiny budgets. I was the only designer and did all the layout, production and marketing artwork, as well as occasionally art directing shoots and illustrating features. Below is a … Continue reading Songlines – Covers

Sierra Maestra are a Cuban band who play son with the original line-up of instruments: tres, guitar, trumpet, bongo, guïro, maracas and four-part harmony vocals. So the idea for this cover was borne from that line-up. All the instruments were hand-drawn then scanned and edited in Photoshop to give a textured feel. worldvillagemusic.com Buy the album here. Continue reading Sierra Maestra – Sonando Ya